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Judge Aureliano Albuquerque Amorim, of the 4th Civil Court of Goiânia, decided to block movable and immovable property and R $ 3 million from the bank accounts of the former player and captain of the Brazilian national team Cafu in a civil action for moral and material damages. According to the magistrate, Cafu and two other businessmen participated in a business suspected of being a financial pyramid, an illegal practice.
The lawsuit, carried out by Ibedec-GO (Brazilian Institute for the Study and Defense of Consumer Relations), which sued former player Ronaldinho Gaúcho, claims that Cafu served as ambassador for the Arbcrypto company, which would offer earnings of up to 2.5% per day in customer bitcoins. The company would not have been able to pass on the promised returns.
Asked through his adviser, Cafu said that he is also a victim of the company and has already sued him out of court (see below).
The cryptocurrency company associated with Cafu offered up to 2.5% of daily income
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According to lawyer Fernando Barbosa, some 25 clients of the company decided to take the measure after suffering losses: “They were already giving as lost investments, especially because the company’s partners had already left the country. We presented the action in an attempt to recover investor rights because the case resembles all known pyramid schemes. “
In the process, entrepreneurs Alexandre Cesario Kwok and Eneas Tomaz are called to action, in addition to Cafu, who appears as the “ambassador” of the company. The judge compared Abrcrypto’s performance to the “Ostrich Master” scheme, in which customers were injured after the purchase of suspected ostriches.
“This is a situation that has already been seen in various other circumstances, in particular in the case of the ‘Ostrich Master’, who managed to keep the system running for a few years, but which eventually died out with the spread of extensive damage those who agreed to participate in the system. ” The case seems to be identical, now it uses the possibility of exchanging cryptocurrencies as a base, a system that is difficult for most of the population to understand and, therefore, ideal to use in the Pyramid, “the judge wrote.
In his decision, the magistrate determined to block the website of the company, the personal and real property of the defendants and up to R $ 3 million in the bank accounts of each one.
Cafu says former partners sued former court
Upon request of the report, the board of the external party of the selection affirmed that Cafu was only the boy of the Arbcrypto cartel and later another victim of the company. According to reports, the athlete sent, in December 2019, an out-of-court notification to Arbcrypto charging late payments for the use of his image in the amount of R $ 220 thousand. The contract between Cafu and the company had been signed in August of that year.
According to the document, obtained by the report, the total value of the contract between the parties was R $ 1.98 million.
With the delay in payments, Cafu demanded the termination of the agreement and the payment of the debt.
The report has not yet located the defense of businessmen Alexandre Cesario Kwok and Eneas Tomaz.
